Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breakfast set out before him consisting solely of a bounteous dish of ice cream. Feng had inquired what the American liked most to eat and then told his "number-one-boy" to provide it for his distinguished friend next morning. Said "number-one-boy" was reported to have spent most of the night with a staff of house servants in finding out how to make ice cream and getting ready this amazing breakfast...
...recent state primaries and elections, $1 per vote has been cheap indeed for the returns obtained. The unsuccessful campaign of George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania cost $3.69 per vote in 1926. The same year, in the same State, William B. Wilson spent 65c per vote for a Senate nomination for which he had no opposition...
...matter how diligent and honest the national moneymen may be, only part of the total actually spent will be reported to Congress. Vast wads of local money, to be spent not literally in buying votes but in paying precinct "workers" to round up their families and friends, pass from , unnamed donors to taciturn precinct bosses. This money is meant, usually, to ensure the election of local candidates. The national candidates benefit simultaneously but the money does not show on their books...
...partisan. Because, as a matter of fact- It seems indisputable that the underlying cause for this year's anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities. Journalism, having sown well the seeds of satire, itself deserves credit for making "baloney" forbidden fruit...
Last Command. The General's heir, Umberto Obregon, 24, has possessed since he was 14 years old a Last Command from his father, who has spent at least a generation in imminent peril of Death. Command...